Rumi Quotes
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I always dreamed of being Maria in The Sound of Music.
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I really believed that my songs were good enough for the whole world to listen to. I had fans from America or the U.K. who would be like, 'Oh my God, I love your music'.
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Obviously, you want to honour the sound of your music, but I'm definitely open to trying new things and making myself use a different palette of sounds.
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I moved to London to go to dance school when I was about 17, but then I realized that I didn't want to be a dancer anymore, so I dropped out after five or six weeks. All I wanted to do was sing and make music.
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I have a whole closet in my house that's dedicated just to jackets and coats, stuff that I've collected over the years.
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When you start putting too much thought into it, the music starts getting too revealing. You don't need to know all my inner thoughts.
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When I think about atheist friends, including my father, they seem to me like people who have no ear for music, or who have never been in love.
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I'll see a celadon green room in an 18th century New Hampshire house and just fall in love. Colors stay in my head.
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Gospel music always relaxes me and calms my nerves.
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What I worry about would be that you essentially have two chambers, the House and the Senate, but you have simply, majoritarian, absolute power on either side. And that's just not what the founders intended.
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When I am stressed, my No. 1 reliever is my music.
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In the house in Beverly Hills where our four children grew up, living conditions were a few thousand times improved over the old tenement on New York's East 93rd Street we Marx Brothers called home.
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My dad is a football guy, not a music guy. He didn't totally understand when I decided to be a musician.
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R&B is the one thing that has influenced every kind of music. Every artist that there is, from those that are sung the most to Adele - you know, she was so influenced by so many R&B artists and soul music - it's clear in her writing that that's where it comes from.
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What is this? It's music to get a brain seizure by.
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I joined the Madras Christian College but dropped out after three months. Telugu music director Ramesh Naidu asked me to assist him, and I did so for over a year. I did think of rejoining college, but by then, I was discovering the musician in me. I worked with Illaya Raja and Raj Koti and soon shifted to commercials. This led to movie offers.
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You can't expect someone born into a family with no music... to understand when I'm conducting the Schoenberg Variations.
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There's sketch, improv, writing, acting, music, and badminton. Those are the seven forms of comedy. But I do like the idea of being an auteur in the sense of writing and being in your own stuff.
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'Each man kills the things he loves'. I recognise that in myself, in relationships, even with guitars, beautiful things that I've had and wilfully destroyed.
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I know this music from memory, not from the music.
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You've achieved success in your field when you don't know whether what you're doing is work or play.
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Tax can be structured in a way that actually encourages investment in infrastructure and encourages investment in Australia from overseas.
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In the house of lovers, the music never stops, the walls are made of songs & the floor dances
